Royal North Shore Hospital surgery waiting times
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026
Royal North Shore Hospital is a public hospital in New South Wales. It reported 15 surgery types to the national planned-surgery collection for 2024–25.
Waiting times by surgery
Shortest median wait first. A surgery the source did not publish a figure for is listed last and is never ranked.
| Surgery | Median wait | Surgeries | Waited more than 365 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hysterectomy (abdominal/vaginal/laparoscopic) | 41 days | 117 surgeries | 5.1% |
| Cholecystectomy (open/laparoscopic) | 75 days | 62 surgeries | 1.6% |
| Cystoscopy | 75 days | 428 surgeries | 6.5% |
| Myringotomy | 90 days | 30 surgeries | not published |
| Inguinal herniotomy/herniorrhaphy | 98 days | 55 surgeries | 5.5% |
| Prostatectomy (transurethral or open) | 105 days | 61 surgeries | 1.6% |
| Total hip replacement | 215 days | 67 surgeries | 11.9% |
| Total knee replacement | 339 days | 62 surgeries | 38.7% |
| Septoplasty | 340 days | 64 surgeries | 21.9% |
| Tonsillectomy (with or without adenoidectomy) | 349 days | 80 surgeries | 17.5% |
| Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion) | 354 days | 1118 surgeries | 39.8% |
| Myringoplasty/tympanoplasty | 384 days | 19 surgeries | not published |
| Coronary artery bypass grafting | not published | 7 surgeries | not published |
| Haemorrhoidectomy | not published | 6 surgeries | not published |
| Varicose veins treatment | not published | not published | not published |
Urgency categories
Urgency figures cover all planned surgery at the hospital, not one procedure. They are never combined with the procedure figures. Your treating specialist assigns your urgency category — it is not something you choose.
| Urgency category | Median wait | Treated within the recommended time | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urgent | 12 days | 100% | 2081 surgeries |
| Semi-urgent | 77 days | 63% | 2681 surgeries |
| Non-urgent | 346 days | 65% | 2522 surgeries |
What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.